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The Most Essential Link

The Postmodern Condition (to be discussed Jan 24)

No Class (MLK Holiday)

Reading:

"Introduction" (PoMo Bible, i-19; read and reflect on all front matter carefully); "preface," Lyotard," "author," "historiography," "process," "scholarship," "space," "theory," "truth," "anti-postmodernism" (Handbook, vii-ix, 160-66, 8-13, 106-112, 199-205, 227-32, 239-44, 245-53, 268-75, 1-7); Clines, "The Pyramid and the Net: The Postmodern Adventure in Biblical Studies";

Supplemental Reading:

Breuggemann, "An Ending that does not End" (Reader, 117-28); Bultmann, Kerygma and Myth (Is Bultmann modern and/or postmodern? Or modern, then postmodern?).

Part One Reading: see Jan 17

Part Two Reading:

"Reader-Response Criticism" (PoMo Bible, 1-69); Bodner, "Is Joab a Reader-Response Critic?" JSOT 27:1 (2002): 19-35; Powell, "The Magi as Kings: An Adventure in Reader-Response Criticism," CBQ 62:3 (2000): 459-480

NB: Unless noted otherwise, all Part Two Reading assignments throughout the semester will be articles available through the library's subscription to EBSCOhost.  Click here to get to the Indexes page.  Then select ATLA Religion (Religion Index).  When you get to the EBSCOhost page just type or paste in the author's name and a significant word from the title.

To see if the Missouri State library has particular journals, use TDNet.

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Chiles: Bodner

Burns: Powell

Supplemental Reading:

 

Part One Reading:

"Structuralist and Narratological Criticism" (PoMo Bible, 70-118); "Bakhtin," "fantasy,"  "intertextuality" (Handbook,  20-27, 85-90, 128-30);

Part Two Reading:

Kunin, "Israel and the Nations: A Structuralist Survey," JSOT 82 (1999): 19-43; Given, "Not Either/Or but Both/And in Paul's Areopagus Speech," BibInt 3:3 (1996): 356-72; Malbon, "Narrative Christology and the Son of Man: What the Markan Jesus Says Instead," BibInt 11:3-4 (2003): 373-85.

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Cole: Kunin

Fabian: Given

Johnson: Malbon

Supplemental Reading:

Danove, "The Narrative Function of Mark's Characterization of God," NovT 43:1 (2001): 2-30; Garsiel, "Revealing and Concealing as a Narrative Strategy in Solomon's Judgment (1 Kings 3:16-28)," CBQ 64:2 (2002): 229-47; Graham, "On Scripture and Authorial Intent: A Narratological Proposal," ATR 77 (1995): 307-20; Hatina, "Intertextuality and Historical Criticism in New Testament Studies: Is There a Relationship?" BibInt 7 (1999): 28-43; Longenecker, "The Narrative Approach to Paul: An Early Retrospective," CBR 1:1 (2002): 88-111; Olson, "Dialogues of Life and Monologues of Death: Jephthah and Jephthah's Daughter in Judges 10:6-12:7" (Reader, 43-54); Miscall, "Isaiah 5-6: Called and Sent" (Reader, 105-115); Van Belle, "Prolepsis in the Gospel of John," NovT 43:4 (2001): 334-347.

Reviews of Wakefield, Where to Live: The Hermeneutical Significance of Paul's Citations from Scripture in Galatians 3:1-14 (Atlanta/Leiden: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2003), pp. vii + 227.

Semeia 81 "Thinking in Signs: Semiotics"

Part One Reading:

"Poststructuralist Criticism" (PoMo Bible, 119-148); "deconstruction," "Derrida," "ethics," "Foucault" (Handbook, 55-61, 69-75, 76-84, 91-98);

Part Two Reading:

Braun, "The Past as Simulacrum in the Canonical Narratives of Christian Origins," Religion & Theology/Religie & teologie 8:3-4 (2001): 213-28; Longenecker, "Evil At Odds with Itself (Matthew 12:22-29): Demonising Rhetoric and Deconstructive Potential in the Matthean Narrative," BibInt 11:3-4 (2003): 503-514; Frilingos, "For My Child, Onesimus": Paul and Domestic Power in Philemon," JBL 119:1 (2000): 91-104

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Langille-Hoppe: Braun

Parsons: Longenecker

Rice: Frilingos

Supplemental Reading:

Gitay, "Prophetic criticism—'what are they doing?': the case of Isaiah—a methodological assessment," JSOT 96:D (2001): 101-127; Polaski, "Moses' Final Examination: The Book of Deuteronomy" (Reader, 29-42); Pyper, "The Secret of Succession: Elijah, Elisha, Jesus, and Derrida" (Reader, 55-66); Jobling, "Postmodern Pentecost: A Reading of Acts 2" (Reader, 207-217);

Part One Reading:

"Rhetorical Criticism" (PoMo Bible, 149-186); "rhetoric" (Handbook, 220-26); Given, Review of J. David Hester Amador, Academic Constraints in Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament. Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Part Two Reading:

Amador, "The Word Made Flesh: Epistemology, Ontology & Postmodern Rhetorics," The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture: Essays from the 1995 London Conference (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997); Given, "On His Majesty's Secret Service: The Undercover Ethos of Paul, Rhetoric, Ethic and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse (Emory Studies in Early Christianity 9; Trinity Press International, forthcoming); Croy, "To Die is Gain" (Philippians 1:19-26): Does Paul Contemplate Suicide?" JBL 122:3 (2003): 517-531

NB: The first article is a pdf file that requires Adobe Reader.  If you happen to be using a computer that fails to display it when you click on the link, the free Adobe Reader program can be downloaded and installed from here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Stalhood: Amador

Stephens: Given

Wallace: Croy

Supplemental Reading:

Aimers, "The Rhetoric of Social Conscience in the Book of Job," JSOT 91 (2000): 99-107; Amador, "Where Could Rhetorical Criticism (Still) Take Us?"; Bartor, "The 'juridical dialogue': a literary-judicial pattern," VT 53:4 (2003): 445-464; Haraguchi, "A rhetorical analysis of Deuteronomy 29-30," AJT 15:1 (2001): 24-37; Koester, "Hebrews, Rhetoric, and the Future of Humanity," CBQ 64:1 (2002): 103-123; Landy, "Strategies of Concentration and Diffusion in Isaiah 6," BibInt 7 (1999): 58-86; Miller, "What the Preacher Forgot: The Rhetoric of Ecclesiastes," CBQ 62:2 (2000): 215-235; Polaski, "Inside Jokes: Community and Authority in the Corinthian Correspondence" (Reader, 233-41); Smit, "'What is Apollos? What is Paul?' In search for the coherence of First Corinthians 1:10-4:21" NovT 44:3 (2002): 231-251; Watts, "Reader Identification and Alienation in the Legal Rhetoric of the Pentateuch," BibInt 7 (1999): 101-112.

The Journal for the Study of Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament

Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power, Special Issue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Moral Persuasion

Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation Homepage

Part One Reading:

"Psychoanalytic Criticism" (PoMo Bible, 187-224); "autobiography," "Bataille," "Blanchot," "Lacan," "Kristeva," "midrash," "trauma" (Handbook, 14-19, 28-34, 35-41, 151-53, 144-50, 167-73, 261-67);

Part Two Reading:

Boer, "The Second Coming: Repetition and Insatiable Desire in the Song of Songs," BibInt 8:3 (2000): 276-301; Landy, "Torah and Anti-Torah: Isaiah 2:2-4 and 1:10-26," BibInt 11:3/4 (2003): 317-334; Jasper, "Communicating: The Word of God," JSNT 20:1 (1997): 29-44;

NB: For some mysterious reason, the only way to get the Jasper article is to enter EBSCOhost through TDNet: 1) Go to the Missouri State Library homepage and click on the TDNet link. 2) Search for Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 3) Select the From EBSCO link.  4) Choose the 1997 issue, volume 1.  5) Select the Jasper article.

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Burns: Boer

Woodring: Landy

Keller: Jasper

Supplemental Reading:

Burrus and Moore, "Unsafe sex: feminism, pornography, and the Song of Songs," BibInt 11:1 (2003): 24-52; Edwards, "Trespassing a monument: a Lacanian visit to Uz, Religious Education," 85 (1990): 279-294; Krause, "School's in Session: The Making and Unmaking of Docile Disciple Bodies in Mark" (Reader, 177-86); Moore, "The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality," Church History, 69:2 (2000) 328-349; Parker, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Must We Leave Eden, Once and for All? A Lacanian Pleasure Trip through the Garden," JSOT 83 (1999): 19-29; Washington, "Israel's Holy Seed and the Foreign Women of Ezra-Nehemiah: a Kristevan Reading," BibInt 11:3/4 (2003): 427-437;

Part One Reading:

"Ideological Criticism" and "Postscript" (PoMo Bible, 272-310); "Certeau," "culture/cultural criticism," "Deleuze and Guattari," "identity," "ideology," "Jameson," "Levinas," "politics," "practice," "race" (Handbook, 42-48, 49-54, 62-68, 113-19, 120-27, 138-43, 154-59, 174-81, 189-98, 213-19)

Part Two Reading:

Houston, "The King's Preferential Option for the Poor: Rhetoric, Ideology and Ethics in Psalm 72," BibInt 7 (1999): 341-367; Fewell, "Building Babel" (Reader, 1-16); Patterson, "Paul, Slavery and Freedom: Personal and Socio-historical Reflections," Semeia 83/84 (1998): 263-77;

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Chiles: Houston

Fabian: Fewell

Johnson: Patterson

Supplemental Reading:

Oldenhage, "How to Read a Tainted Text: The Wicked Husbandmen in a Post-Holocaust Context" (Reader, 165-76); Esler, "Ezra-Nehemiah as a narrative of (re-invented) Israelite identity," BibInt 11:3-4 (2003): 413-26

Semeia 83/84: "Slavery in Text and Interpretation"

Part One Reading:

"Feminist and Womanist Criticism" (PoMo Bible, 225-271); "gender," "Irigaray," "queer theory," "sexuality," "translation" (Handbook, 99-105, 131-37, 233-38, 206-212, 254-60);

Women and Religion Lecture: A Crash Course in Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics

Part Two Reading:

Shields, "An Abusive God? Identity and Power/Gender and Violence in Ezekiel 23" (Reader, 129-51); Martin, "Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1:18-32," BibInt 3,3 (1995): 332-355.

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Langille-Hoppe: Shields

Parsons: Martin

Supplemental Reading:

Berquist, "Leviticus and Nausea" (Reader, 17-27); Black, "Nocturnal Egression: Exploring Some Margins of the Song of Songs" (Reader, 93-104); Day, L. "Rhetoric and Domestic Violence in Ezekiel 16," BibInt 8:3 (2000): 205-230; Day, P. "The Bitch Had It Coming to Her: Rhetoric and Interpretation in Ezekiel 16." BibInt 8:3 (2000): 231-254; Jackson, "Lot's daughters and Tamar as tricksters and the patriarchal narratives as feminist theology," JSOT 98 (2002): 29-46; Jarrell, "The Birth Narrative as Female Counterpoint to Covenant," JSOT 97 (2002): 3-18; Penchansky, "Is Hokmah an Israelite Goddess, and What Should We Do about It" (Reader, 81-92); Penner and Stichele, "Unveiling Paul: Gendering Ethos in 1 Cor 11:2-16" Lectio difficilior: European Electronic Journal for Feminist Exegesis 2/2004

Reading: "postcolonialism" (Handbook, 182-88); Sugirtharajah, Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation

[Next time consider using Vander Stichele, Caroline and Todd Penner, eds., Her Master's Tools?: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse (Atlanta/Leiden: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2005)]

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

Rice: Introduction and Chap. 1

Stalhood: Chap. 2

Stephens: Chap. 3

Wallace: Chap. 4

Woodring: Chap. 5 and Afterword

Supplemental Reading:

Boer, "Introduction: Vanishing Mediators?" Semeia 88 (1999). This entire Semeia volume is dedicated to a discussion of the Bible as an absent presence in the postcolonial context.

Runions, "Called to do Justice?: A Bhabhian Reading of Micah 5 and 6:1-8" (Reader, 153-64); Sugirtharajah, "Son(s) Behaving Badly: The Prodigal in Foreign Hands" (Reader, 195-206);

Reading: Aichele, The Control of Biblical Meaning

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

6:30    Keller: Introduction and chaps. 1-2

6:55    Burns: Chaps. 3-4

7:20    Chiles: Chaps. 5-6

7:45    Break

8:00    Fabian: Chaps. 7-8

8:25    Johnson: Chap. 9 and Conclusion

Reading: Martin, The Corinthian Body

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

6:30    Langille-Hoppe: Preface and Chap. 1

6:50    Parsons: Chaps. 2-3

7:10    Rice: Chaps. 4-5

7:30    Stalhood: Chaps. 6-7

7:50    Stephens: Chaps. 8-9 and Postscript

8:10    Adjournment

Reading: Given, Paul's True Rhetoric: Ambiguity, Cunning, and Deception in Greece and Rome

Presenters and Discussion Leaders:

6:30    Wallace: Chap. 1

6:55    Woodring: Chap. 2

7:20    Keller: Chap. 3

7:45    Break

8:00    Given: Chap. 4-5

Supplemental Reading:

Pascuzzi, Review of Paul's true rhetoric: ambiguity, cunning, and deception in Greece and Rome CBQ 65:2 (2003): 284-285; Journal of Biblical Literature and Review of Biblical Literature review; Princeton Theological Seminary's Koinonia XV (2003) review; Society of Biblical Literature's Rhetoric and the New Testament Section review.

The Dramatic Account

6:30     Burns:

7:05     Chiles:

7:40     Break (10 minutes)

7:50     Fabian:

6:30     Langille-Hoppe:

7:05     Parsons:

7:40     Break (10 minutes)

7:50     Rice:

8:25     Stalhood:

6:30     Wallace:

7:05     Woodring:

7:40     Break (10 minutes)

7:50     Keller:

Matthews, Tools for Biblical Research

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